Remember the Atkins diet from the noughties?
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Remember the Atkins diet from the noughties? It was bloody everywhere. Did it die out, or just evolve into something even more loopy?
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Remember the Atkins diet from the noughties? It was bloody everywhere. Did it die out, or just evolve into something even more loopy?
@TomF isn't that what laid the groundwork for the whole current RFK Jr loopiness?
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@TomF isn't that what laid the groundwork for the whole current RFK Jr loopiness?
@danlyke That's why I was reminded of it. But he has clearly taken it to new and loonier heights. I am unclear if the steroids are an official part of the diet or not :-)
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@TomF isn't that what laid the groundwork for the whole current RFK Jr loopiness?
@danlyke @TomF Not exactly, RFK Jr. is a product of the same quack universe as fad diets and supplements but Atkins was just one iteration of that, hardly the first or even an early entrant.
The fad diet world moved on to "gluten free" and keto, but now Ozempic exists and is torpedoing the entire business model.
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@danlyke @TomF Not exactly, RFK Jr. is a product of the same quack universe as fad diets and supplements but Atkins was just one iteration of that, hardly the first or even an early entrant.
The fad diet world moved on to "gluten free" and keto, but now Ozempic exists and is torpedoing the entire business model.
@EricLasota yeah. I grew up with co-ops and Adelle Davis, watched my mom go through a Macrobiotic phase (I did learn to cook a lot of different styles growing up), and around the time of Atkins she went the direction of Weston A Price, and thence to RFK Jr.
So I've personally watched it evolve, and, yeah, it's not exactly the same thing, but...
cc @TomF
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Remember the Atkins diet from the noughties? It was bloody everywhere. Did it die out, or just evolve into something even more loopy?
@TomF it evolved into Keto.
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Remember the Atkins diet from the noughties? It was bloody everywhere. Did it die out, or just evolve into something even more loopy?
@TomF The Atkins diet is a variant of the Ketogenic diet. They’re both legit weight loss programs… likely the fastest possible. The gotcha is that people assume diet = healthy.
You can do keto by eating salads topped with protein plus some extra olive oil to hit your calorie target. Or you can do it by eating nothing but cream-cheese sausage dip using celery as a spoon like my friend did. Both meal plans are effective at weight loss, but only one of them is healthy.
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@TomF The Atkins diet is a variant of the Ketogenic diet. They’re both legit weight loss programs… likely the fastest possible. The gotcha is that people assume diet = healthy.
You can do keto by eating salads topped with protein plus some extra olive oil to hit your calorie target. Or you can do it by eating nothing but cream-cheese sausage dip using celery as a spoon like my friend did. Both meal plans are effective at weight loss, but only one of them is healthy.
@TomF When I say “nothing but” I mean only until KFC introduced the “double down” sandwich. (This was over a decade ago.) Cheese, sauce, bacon squeezed between two pieces of fried chicken instead of a bun. My friend dropped 80lbs doing this.
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@TomF The Atkins diet is a variant of the Ketogenic diet. They’re both legit weight loss programs… likely the fastest possible. The gotcha is that people assume diet = healthy.
You can do keto by eating salads topped with protein plus some extra olive oil to hit your calorie target. Or you can do it by eating nothing but cream-cheese sausage dip using celery as a spoon like my friend did. Both meal plans are effective at weight loss, but only one of them is healthy.
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@yora @jkaniarz The problem is that diets are miserable. You're miserable all the time. And once you hit your target weight, they are miserable for the rest of your life.
But if you do the "move more" part of the equation, and do things like picking heavy things up and then putting them down again. Well that's only miserable while you pick the heavy things up. But then you put them down again and it's not miserable any more. Also, you can pick up heavy things if you need to, which is nice.